Mentally I’m here

A Light in the Darkness

Steve hadn't expected his parents to show up. He hadn't expected them to come right in without warning while he was sorting his bandages. Alone. As always. But they had. Almost like they'd heard the news ahead of time. And his mother had fussed over him for all of two days while his father patrolled the house. Steve didn't have to ask to know he was looking for faults. Steven Sr was a strict man, and he was inclined to know there would be nothing good coming. But the man never said a word, even as he inspected the place like he knew anything about what was good or bad. They asked a lot of questions he couldn't answer, especially when the men in suits arrived on the door step to speak to him.

His dad had eyed the check they'd handed over like a vulture eyeing a dying man in the desert heat. But Steve had tucked it safely away along side the cash he had saved and hidden. Then, just like that, they left him again. Just when the sound of someone else in the home had started to settle him. Just when he'd felt the comfort of knowing if he called out someone would call back. Steve woke to an empty house and nothing but a letter from his mother saying they'd left for business, along side a small check like the ones he got in the mail every month. When Steve left the house he'd intended to just go get supplies and come home. What could he do? Just keep going. The kids were home, Max was out of the hospital. Eddie too. If he went by the trailer park to check on them, well surely he couldn't be blamed. It would settle the noise in his head. So he swung by, Max was there and he'd said his hellos, asked if they'd needed anything, then headed to Eddies new trailer. Shitty, he thought, that they couldn't have bothered to afford them a proper home after everything. Just a new trailer. Bigger sure but still. He wasn't home. His van wasn't in the drive either. Steve's worry got the better of him and he set off in search of the wayward metal head. @crawledoutofmordor

【ᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ɪ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴍʏ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ɢᴏᴇꜱ ʙᴏᴏᴍ, ʙᴏᴏᴍ, ʙᴏᴏᴍ】 【ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ɪ ʜᴇᴀʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴍʏ ʜᴇᴀᴅ ɢᴏᴇꜱ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴏᴏᴍ】

A Light in the Darkness

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Avatar Zuko! Avatar Zuko! AVATAR ZUKO!

As soon as I saw the description of this scene from A Light in the Darkness with these two kiddos being sassy at each other, I knew that I had to try drawing them for my @zkbigbang piece. They're just so cute when they're being grumpy!

Obviously there's a LOT more to this fic than little Zutara sassing each other, so check it out at the link below to see lots of worldbuilding, lots of plot, lots of angst, and an eventual happy ending!

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My birthday was mostly fab.

Social interaction gauge is at 0 and my back's playing up. So I'll be hiding on Ami's blog. Which all new interactions for the Naruto verse will be coming from. This also goes for any replies and asks I owe.

I'm gradually transferring shit over, although its kinda slow going. I will follow from my main multi.

Main RP multimuse: @rangers-arecool

Elves RP multimuse: @amid-ice-and-snow

Ami | Naruto OC: @of-sand-and-leaf

5, 12, 19, 31, 48, 49 :D

5. If you could make only one of your OCs popular/known, who would it be?

Maybe Blazingcoral? I care about her a lot... Though honestly I'd be happy if any of my ALitD cast got popular.

12. Name an OC that isn’t yours but who you like a lot

I do like both Reah and Terry a lot, haha. I've really been enjoying watching you develop them and their story!

19. Introduce an OC that means a lot to you (and explain why)

I mean, again, the ALitD cast in general, but Blazingcoral holds a special place in my heart. She's one of my oldest characters and I've been developing her story and world for ages now.

Blazingcoral is a flamehide, a fire-breathing reptile. While flamehides are divided into four breeds--sky, forest, plains, and sea--she is a mix between sea and plains. Her story is one of being alive when she should have died, being saved through circumstances she does not fully understand the weight of. And yet the world she's in is not one that accepts her--not enough of one thing, too much of another. She can't run like a plains flamehide, or swim or breathe underwater like a sea flamehide. Why was she left alive, to be brought into a world like this, one where she stands out so starkly, like... well, A Light in the Darkness?

Though I'll also say both Cutter and Dagger mean a lot to me. They're not as old as Blazingcoral but I have been developing them for a long time, and their friendship is something I care about a lot--they're not perfect and they don't always get along, but they need each other.

Cutter is a hearall--something like a cross between a lion and a bat--but he's smaller than his brethren, his mane will not grow, and he is marred by scars. Dagger is a tusktung--a large, vaguely lizard-like creature with an enormous tongue and giant paws and claws, and that's supposed to have giant tusks and dense, protective callouses on its back--but Dagger is a mutant, missing the main offense and defense of his species. Neither of them fit in quite so well either, but they have each other. They also have this thing of being Those Two Guys on the sidelines of a bigger story. While Blazingcoral is as the center of her story, Cutter and Dagger are just There, trying to survive events they can't even fully comprehend. But even if the events are not centered on them, they still matter--they are still important, and what they do still affects the world around them, even if no one else ever sees it, even if their cries sound like nothing more than A Whisper in the Chaos.

31. Pick one OC of yours and explain what their tumblr blog would be like (what they reblog, layout, anything really)

Bartholomew would have a blog where he's constantly reblogging history and biology and language posts, the last one especially. When writing posts himself he'd sometimes write in one language or another, but he'd probably have moments where he would post something and then realize to his horror that he switched languages halfway through. He might edit it or he might leave it because he's Tired.

also assuming other forms of technology would exist in whatever universe this would take place in, he'd probably (with her permission) take pictures of Blazingcoral and gush about whatever she's been doing lately.

48. OC who is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure

Dagger, no contest.

49. Which one of your OCs would most likely enjoy memes

Flora. %| She would probably get annoying about it too.

A Light in the Darkness 👀👀👀👀

WIP ask meme Thanks for the ask, @grandninjamasterren !

One of my favorite tropes are before-and-after pieces, where we see the protagonist at one stage of their lives and dealing with a situation, and then we see them at a different time dealing with a related situation in another era in their lives. It was a storytelling technique I was fond of in my youth, used in shows like Highlander. A Light in the Darkness follows that trope. When it opens, Corellan Halcyon is still a Padawan on Tython, lifting his lightsaber in the air at the Forge as Teeseven stands by his side. The Jugoran - a creature that reeks of the dark side - crawls up the mountain and confronts him. Corellan rises to the challenge of this dark threat. Flash forward nearly a decade later on Odessen, after Satele and Marr help Corellan construct a new lightsaber. He fights his way through some mini-Jugorans, and then confronts the big one at the hot springs. What he feels… is very different from before.

Thanks for asking me about it.

{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.